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“I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year…” quote by Lord Byron — Download Open image

“I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient frien”

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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

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To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

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Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your…

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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her…

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“We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.”

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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

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Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

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For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager

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